Shuddhavasakayika, Śuddhāvāsakāyika, Suddhāvāsakāyika, Suddha-avasakayika: 3 definitions
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The Sanskrit term Śuddhāvāsakāyika can be transliterated into English as Suddhavasakayika or Shuddhavasakayika, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
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Sanskrit dictionary
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit DictionaryŚuddhāvāsakāyika (शुद्धावासकायिक).—(= Pali su°), adj. with (or rarely sc.) deva (q.v.), devaputra, or devatā, = śuddhā- vāsa (2), belonging to (this) class of gods; occasionally sg. of an individual, named Lalitavistara 267.9, or unnamed Mahāvastu i.35.9; 45.14; two, (Ārya-)Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa 64.6 (unnamed); generally pl., or in [compound] (to be understood as pl.), very common: Lalitavistara 4.5; 44.12; 56.3; 187.18; 205.17; 332.21; 357.18; 396.16; 444.11; Mahāvastu i.33.4; 35.4, 8; 212.16; ii.257.9; 287.4; Avadāna-śataka i.122.9; °kā devatā(ḥ) Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā 37.11; 45.20.
Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English DictionaryŚuddhāvāsakāyika (शुद्धावासकायिक):—[=śuddhāvāsa-kāyika] [from śuddhāvāsa > śuddha > śundh] m. (with deva) a god belonging to the class who dwell in that region, [ib.]
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Pali-English dictionary
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionarySuddhāvāsakāyika refers to: belonging to the pure abode, epithet of the Suddhāvāsa devas Vin. II, 302; D. II, 253; S. I, 26.
Note: suddhāvāsakāyika is a Pali compound consisting of the words suddha and āvāsakāyika.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
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Partial matches: Shuddhavasa, Kayika, Shuddha.
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